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title: "WAW — Warsaw Chopin Airport, Warsaw · Orbit"
description: "Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW/EPWA) serves Warsaw, Poland. Opened 1934, named after Frédéric Chopin, 21.3 million passengers in 2024, 8 km from Warsaw."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/waw
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Warsaw · Poland · Europe

# WAW — Warsaw Chopin

Warsaw Chopin Airport serves Warsaw, Poland, 8 km from the city centre, and sits at 52.2°N, 21.0°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
WAW
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
EPWA
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1934
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
21.3M
in 2024

## History & name

Warsaw Chopin Airport opened in 1934 and honours the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849); it also takes its name from Okęcie. It lies 8 km from Warsaw, has two runways up to 3,690 m and served 21.3 million passengers in 2024.

Named after **Frédéric Chopin** — Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw%5FFrederic%5FChopin%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465071)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Warsaw Chopin Airport

**Serves**
Warsaw, Poland

**City centre**
8 km from Warsaw

**Opened**
1934

**Passengers**
21.3 million in 2024

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,690 m

**Elevation**
362 ft (110 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=52.16570,20.96710)

**Website**
[lotnisko-chopina.pl ↗](http://www.lotnisko-chopina.pl/?lang=en)

## Where it sits

52.2°N, 21.0°E puts WAW in the northern hemisphere, 5,801 km from the equator and 4,207 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **47th** most northerly, which makes it the 615th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 52.2°S, 159.0°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Wellington (WLG) in New Zealand, still 2,310 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Katowice Wojciech Korfanty** (KTW), 229 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from WAW

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-waw) | LHR | 1,469 km | 2h 20m    |

[Distance from WAW to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=WAW&to=LHR) [Map a trip from WAW →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=WAW-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure WAW to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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